The Blooding: True Story of the Narborough Village Murders by Wambaugh, Joseph

Hardback. Acceptable.

Hardback. Good.

London: Bantam. True crime / criminology. True story of the Narborough Village murders, just outside Leicester, where Police used genetic fingerprinting for the first time, to secure a conviction for rape & murder against Colin Pitchfork. Dustwrapper spine a touch sunned . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1989.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Slight shelf wear to top/bottom edges dw/dj.8vo, 288pp. On 21 Nov,1983 fifteen year old Lynda Mann was raped and murdered near her home in the Leicestershire village of Narborough.Nearly three years later the police had still not found her murderer when Dawn Ashworth,also fifteen,was similarly raped and killed near that same village.In the massive hunt that followed, Leicestershire police arrested a young kitchen porter who had been sighted several times near the murder location.In custody,the kitchen porter,who had a history of molesting children,confessed to the murder of Dawn Ashworth.Convinced they had found the killer of both Dawn and Lynda,the police enlisted the aid of a scientific discovery that had only just been announced: the technique known as 'genetic fingerprinting'.The lab report that came back was devastating; the… Read More